Posted on May 18th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
This great song by James Brown (sung by Christina Aguilera at the 2007 Grammy’s) has been running through my head all day today. You know… “It’s A Man’s World… But It Don’t Mean Nothing Without A Woman”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh2Yxp6q2h0
Which leads me and many other women in America to wonder… “If not now, when can a woman be president?”
“For […]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Oops… “A week after his 57-state remark, Obama puts himself in the wrong city.” Maybe the confusion explasins why he’s spinning his upcoming Kentucky loss already. And speaking of losses, Obama needs to wake up and smell the change in Florida, before it is too late. Big Tent Democrat explains “Why The FL Delegation Must […]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
The Boston Globe reports the latest on Senator Ted Kennedy, friends and associates have said that hos “condition was considered serious,” but “his life did not appear to be in imminent danger.” Kennedy was hospitalized earlier today after suffering a seizure.
The news of his hospitalization has drawn an outpouring “of support from across the nation […]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Senator John Kerry is reported to currently be at Massachusetts General Hospital with Senator Kennedy and members of the Kennedy family. Via my contact in Senator Kerry’s office, his press office has released the following statement in regards to Senator Edward Kennedy:
“Ted Kennedy is beloved and respected on both sides of the aisle in the Senate in […]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Senator Ted Kennedy was hospitalized this morning after suffering from stroke like symptoms. He was rushed by ambulance and initially hospitalized at Cape Cod Hospital and then airlifted to Mass General in Boston.
Kennedy spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter says that “Kennedy has been hospitalized in Boston after suffering a seizure,” rather than a “stroke as initially suspected.”
Cutter […]
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Posted on May 17th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I’m on a blogger call with Hillary Clinton right now. I’ll do my best to live blog as much as possible.
Peter Daou just thanked all the bloggers supporting Hillary and introduced her. She’s speaking now, thanking us all for working so hard in the blogosphere to make her case on the issues that matter. Hillary […]
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Andrei Cherny was on The Colbert Report last night discussing his new book, The Candy Bombers, with Stephen Colbert.
Andrei is co-founder and co-editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a former White House speechwriter and Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Sphere: Related Content
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Posted on May 16th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
I remember the days when I used to enjoy staying up late or even finding a place to go that was Open All Night. These days, I’m happy to turn in a lot earlier than I used to. But for those looking a for a place that’s Open All Night… Here’s the ticket from Bruce […]
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
As I expected she would… Today in Rapid City, SD, Hillary Clinton went to bat for Barack Obama in the wake of Bush’s comparison of him to Neville Chamberlain, Ken Vogel reports (via Politico).
She told reporters:
President Bush’s comparison of any Democrat to Nazi appeasers is both offensive and outrageous on the face of it, especially […]
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Posted on May 15th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
John Edwards endorsed Barack Obama tonight in Grand Rapids, Michigan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzkAjd3xQ7w
The media and blogosphere are abuzz as to the hows and whys of Edwards stepping up to endorse Obama when the race is down to the finish line with just a few primaries left, but the endorsement does come ”at a time when the appeal of Mr. […]
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Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
It is “generally frowned upon: Calling reporters “sweetie.”” But, Barack Obama says he has a bad habit of “using the word ’sweetie.’” And he says “I do it sometimes with all kinds of people.” Yeh… Right… No doubt those “all kinds of people” are all women, because men generally don’t call me “sweetie.”
Watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juy9NwI8_i0
Of course this isn’t the […]
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